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Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.
Sundays, between 12- 4pm
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Sunday, 24 August 2025
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From the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Len Lye Centre:
"Writing about music," an old expression goes, "is like dancing about architecture". An expression used to express the futility of translating music into words. So what about translating architecture… Read more Audio
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Mad Men director on coming up in the new golden age of television
If you've watched any of the leading television shows in the past 25 years, it's likely Lesli Linka Glatter had a hand in directing them. Mad Men, Homeland, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls and The Walking… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: The Record Keeper of Geraldine
In South Canterbury, Geraldine is home to a unique vinyl and coffee outlet called The Record Keeper. It's entirely powered by solar power and a bit of a stage for up and coming musicians Next week… Read more Audio
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Seduction, debauchery and madness: Mary Shelley's birth of Frankenstein
Following a notorious night of debauchery, English novelist Mary Shelley becomes the mother of horror. Set in Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, ATC's new thriller, Mary: The Birth of Frankenstein… Read more Audio
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Favourite music from childhood with Fleabite and Levity Beet's Beetbite
FleaBITE have recently joined up with another popular and prodigious creative talent Takaka's Levity Beet to create the kids music duo BeetBITE. These two artists have between them taken top spots at… Read more Audio
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Fast Favourites: Writer, academic and plus-size model Kaarina Parker
Writer, academic and plus-size model, Kaarina Parker will be walking in this year's Fashion Week. It coincides with RNZ's new documentary series, Cutting The Curve, which looks at the new era of diet… Read more Audio
Sunday, 17 August 2025
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Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold On Us
17 Aug 2025Murder, monsters, werewolves and witchcraft… if you encase those elements in a thrilling script performed by beautiful stars, suddenly, we can't look away. Audio
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The robots are everywhere but why treat them as human? Poet Jiaqiao Liu
17 Aug 2025Culture 101's Mark Amery had to borrow a car this week and, while he was driving, pressed a button on the display console and a female voice startled him, speaking to him in Japanese. Mark doesn't… Read more Audio
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Fiume o Morte! Fascism's stranger-than-fiction poet-led first state
For his latest blending of documentary and fiction, filmmaker Igor Bezinovic has turned the camera on a stranger-than-fiction story from the history of his own port city on the Adriatic coast, Rijeka… Read more Audio
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Mr Bean, but Sexy": Comedian George Fenn on pushing audience's boundaries
17 Aug 2025Interactive Comedian George Fenn joins Culture 101 to talk about his acclaimed show, Sexy Ghost Boy Read more Audio
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The Auckland sculptor creating giant iconic Kiwi confectionery
17 Aug 2025Simon Lewis Wards plays with the idea of nostalgia through familiar, quotidian objects.
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